4JE Pros and Cons
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Pros:
Hydroelectricity
  • no need to burn coal
  • it can help global warming and not pollute
  • we are in charge of the 32 turbines that control hydroelectricity
  • Creates 18,000 megawatts of electricity
Prevent Flooding
  • saving people's lives
  • 1000 times of flooding before dam
  • 1931 flooding this much of people drowned 145,000 people and 1954, 30,000 in 1998 1,500 people were killed
  • It use to kill 15million people died in every 5~10 years
Safer for shipping
  • form a deep channel(660 kilos)that improve the shipping condition in Chongqing
  • it will be easier for ship to go up and down
  • the shipping cost will cut off 30% to 37% in Chongqing
  • the installation of ship locks is intended to increase river shipping from ten million to 100 million tonnes
Famous
  • about 4,000,000 tourists visiting
  • can be seen from space
  • largest dam and also the largest hydroelectricity dam in the world





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Cons:
Dangerous
  • Dynamite danger
  • 20 years of working day and night
  • breathe bad air
  • earthquake zone
They might die or go missing
  • got injured and they got buried
  • got crushed by rock, truck, or bulldozer
  • fall off from a high place such as a little building
  • fall into the river by accident

If the Three Gorges Dam fall in the middle of the constructing it will flood or make a tsunami or earthquake
  • || Length || 2,335 meter (7,661 ft) ||
  • || Height || 185meter (607) ||
  • || width || 131ft 115 meters (377 ft) Crest: 40 meters ||
  • it's in a large earthquake zone, so if it collapses, the deaths will be our fault